I am getting ready to completely wipe my hard drive on my test machine and complately reload the OS. I am not one of those people that wipes their hard drives all of the time either, I have had this installation of microsoft xp on this particular machine since the time it was shipped to me from Microsoft so i have a lot of OS updates, etc., embedded in my drive. The installation has just gotten sluggish due to all of the testing I do on it. I have almost decided to try VMWare this time around so I can put Linux / Windows on it at the same time.
In doing my research for what all I am going to need to re-install on this box I noticed that PHP5 has a totally new installer built into their software, which makes things really super nice! Here is a Link to Using the Windows Installer for PHP 5.2.x that might be interesting to you should you decide to reinstall PHP on your test box or production server.
Questions or Comments?